Science news articles about 'research vessel polarstern'

... August 19th 2008. German research vessel Polarstern, operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute ... transits the Northwest Passage for the first time. Polarstern left the port of Reykjavik on August 12th, ...

Bremerhaven, October 17th 2008. The German research vessel Polarstern has returned today to Bremerhaven from the Arctic Sea. It has cruised as the first research vessel ever both the Northeast and the ...

... August 7th 2008. The German Research Vessel Polarstern had to prove its ice breaking capabilities ... August 12th. If the ice conditions allow, Polarstern will drive via the Northwest Passage into the work ...

... Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany commented that, "Our ice-breaking research vessel 'Polarstern' is currently on a scientific mission in the Arctic Ocean. Departing from Iceland, the ...

... Institute of Oceaonography and the Alfred Wegener Institute has returned from its expedition on research vessel Polarstern. The cooperative project Lohafex has yielded new insights on how ocean ...

A new measurement system for the detection of whales is used for the first time on board of the research vessel Polarstern. Whales are usually difficult to spot. On the one hand, they spend the ...